West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-08-05
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A nephew Of Lord Beaconsfleld has writtcH
novel.
Turner, the landscape painter. was once n
BARRIERS assistant
Rev. Or, Collyer is receiving an ovation ou
the Pacific coast.
President Cleveland writes with a stub pen
and cork penholder
Gen. Sherman has taken q cottage at Lake
George for the summer.
Ex-Governor Edwin F. Noyes, Of Ohio, is
visiting Concord, N. II.
Gen. Belknap is printing q history Of tho
Fifteenth Iowa infantry.
Alan Arthur, son of tho late ex-President
Arthur, has arrived at Paris.
Ex-senator S. W. Dorsey has settled in
New York and opened an office.
George w. Cable has started on en- ex-
tended reading and lecturing tour.
Archibald Forbes the famous war corre-
spondcnt, is still dangerously i'll.
Ruskin publishes his own writings. His
profits last year were 1000, it is stated.
Prince Albert Victor Of Wales has become
member Of the guild Of merchant tailors Of
London.
Gen. Dudley, ex-commissioner of pensions,
is said to be deeply interested in cable roads
at st. Paul.
Robert I. Lincoln Is building a house for
himself on the Lake Drive, near Lincoln park,
in Chicago.
The Earlof Dudley. who will be Of age next
year, is one Of the greatest matrimonial
catches in the world.
Professor Tyndall is an Irishman by birth,
born In County Carlow in 1870. He has como
out in favor Of coercion.
Mayor Roche, Of Chicago, is said to bear a
close physical resemblance to ex-Prcsident
Hnyes in his earlier years.
Ex-senator Allen G. Thurman has been
spending the past few weeks with his married
daughters on Long Island.
Lord Tennyson is now visiting points Of in
terest OH the Welsh coast He says he has
laid down his pen for awhile.
Goveynor Rusk, of Wisconsin, is power
full man physically, and was once stage
driver and country tavern keeper.
Mr. Chamberlain Is seldom seen in his
familiar London haunts now He complains
Of "brealsing down" and growing fat"
Sir William Armstrong, the gunmaker,
prefers to retain his name, and will sit in tho
British house Of peers as Baron Armstrong.
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the hundred
times millionaire, Is deeply interested in rails
ing chickens. At his farm he has a splendid
lot of rare birds.
NJ. Secretion, a copper manufacturer OF
Paris, owns twenty pictures by Meissonier
One of them-"Napoleon Reviewing Corps
,f French Cavalry"-cost $4,000
The Marquis Of Salisbury takes great in
.erest in electricity, and is employing II on
dis estate at Hatfield TO work the elevators
Tor building the hay and corn stacks.
The Bishop OF Rochester Is about to leave
England for q three months holiday in tho
United States, having been ordered away by
his medical advisers for rest and change.
Mr.. +. K Vanderbilt Is to erect palatiai
villa ut Newport on ground embracing tho
Estates formerly owned by the late jacob
Dunnell, OF Providence, and w. W. Tucker,
,f Boston
Professor T. g. Morse, Of Salem, Mass, now
aas collection OF more than 1000 pieces OF
Japanese pottery, all historically classified
md representing every era in the develop
nent of the art.
Sitting Bull is living life Of laziness at
Standing Rock agency. Work he considers
degrading and believes that his victory over
Custer hos entitled him to an existence OF
,ase and incidence
William X. Vanderbilt aud family ore In
London. They will remain there about n
week, and then re-embark on board the Alvn,
which is now lying in the Mersey, for a cruise
n English and Scotch waters until grouse
ihooting begins. !,
Charles Lowell Stewart Spence recently
lied at ON advanced age IN Baltimore county,
Nd. He was q cousin of James Russell
Lowell, and man Of culture and wide in
formation. lie rendered valuable service for
The United States in regard 10 diplomatic re-
ations with Persia, and was decorated by
he shah with the order Of "The Sun and
Lion.n
Ex-Governor Porter, assistant secretary OF
ytate, says that while II is not always neces-
,ary to have q passport, they would come In
exceedingly "bandy" should any difficulty
Eriso to On American abroad In case Of sick
hcas the American consul is Immediately
notified, and hc comes TO the rescue. He says
sperson may go abroad twenty times with
out requiring passport, but OH the twenty
irEt time he would probably find IL invaluable.